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If you take these to a school bake sale everyone will say to you, “Nice hooters!”

Cute huh?

I made these for the daughter of a VERY good friend.I say VERY, because I don’t normally take a lot of time to decorate things I bake or cook.I tend to make big messes and get frosting all over everything.

So, wearing a pair of white shorts no less, I got all down and dirty and chocolaty for my friend.Turns out, it was worth it.

Owl Cupcakes

What you need:

·12 cupcakes (I used Chocolate & Vanilla)

·1-2 cans chocolate frosting

·24 Oreo sandwich cookies twisted apart

·Junior Mints

·Candy Corn

Step 1: Frost all of your cupcakes with the chocolate frosting and be sure to drop a glob on your white shorts.

Step 2:Twist your Oreos apart.Mine came apart easily, but the cupcake book I used said to zap some in the microwave for about 3 seconds if you are having trouble.

Step 3: Press the Oreo halves, frosted side up, into the upper half of the frosted cupcakes.(It is at this time you somehow get chocolate in your hair.)

Step 4: Score 12 of the unfrosted Oreos into 3 parts with a serrated knife.This way they can easily snap apart.It should look like this.

Step 5: Stick the round edge Oreo pieces into the top of each cupcake above the Oreo halves.These will be the owl’s ears.

Step 6:Next, you will pipe more chocolate frosting on the ears and in between the eyes to create the look of feathers.I have no pictures of this because I had too much chocolate frosting on my hands and shorts.

Step 7: Pipe a dot of frosting on top of each Oreo half and stick a Junior Mint on it for the owl’s eye.Make sure to drop a Junior Mint on the chair you are sitting on and get the back of your white shorts all chocolaty too.

Step 8: Press a candy corn in the center of each set of eyes for the nose.

Step 9: Put on an apron to cover up the chocolate you got all over yourself…..or maybe you should have done that first….before you started with the chocolate?